Chapter 1 - Sedibeng District Municipality

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CHAPTER 01: INTRODUCTION AND LEGISLATION Planning for the Outcomes: Continuous collaborative efforts are re required to entrench outcome-based planning within IDP’s across the province. SDM has developed its IDP that is embedded in the Outcomes based planning and has integrated both the provincial and national Outcomes in that regard. Statistical Data: Poor use of Statistical data was raised. Municipalities are urge to make use of 2011 Census results in the measures aimed at improving quality and credibility of IDP’s. Number of Rural area nodes with low population densities: The provision of services like transport remains the challenge. The municipality is planning to develop and promote rail in the region to improve the Public transport system. More integrated approach is recommended in line with the Integrated Transport Plan in particular the Public Transport Plan. Housing Demand : A total number of 54 820 backyard units recorded in the district. The municipality should explore promotion and supply of rental housing to meet the demand, in line with the Department of Local Government and Housing’s Alternative Tenure Programme. Furthermore, the tenants of the Breaking New Ground policy should be pursued as it promotes mixed and integrated human settle. Consolidation of Governance through Metro Systems of Governance by 2016:With the support from the District, some of the high level issues that the municipality needs to focus on include uniform Spatial planning, a macro economic development strategy, infrastructure planning and budgeting; and governance. The district must demonstrate how the municipality programmatically coordinates planning across the region in the build up towards a Metro Performance Management System: The omission of the PMS in the District IDP constitute the breach of the Systems Act of 2000 (Section 26). The latter also makes it difficult to compare PMS with the IDP priorities and assess synergies and gaps. The municipality is urged to ensure that the 2013/14 IDP currently being developed integrates the PMS Section. Alignment with National and Provincial Priorities: The municipality’s financial commitment to the identified GDS/Outcomes programmes the District is urged to expand this initiative across the region as one of the building blocks towards regional planning. In the SDM Integrated Development Plan, primary municipal data source is Stats SA Census 2011 and auxiliary information; we have considered other source as secondary source. The provision of transport still remains a challenge in rural communities because of low number of passengers to effectively operate a public transport. On engagement with public transport operators it was not profitable to them to operate public transport on regular basis. The Sedibeng District Municipality plays a coordinating and facilitating role in the Housing delivery to support both Local Municipalities and the Provincial Department of Local Government and Housing. A Structure responsible for Housing projects in Sedibeng District is in place and functioning to ensure that alternative tenure and ground breaking policy are pursuit in the Housing delivery. Sedibeng District Municipality is moving ahead with the process of consolidation of Governance in the region. All the legal and regulatory processes have been complied with in this regard and in preparation for the final determination by the Municipal Demarcation Board programmes are in place such as undertaking a comprehensive five (5) year Spatial Development Planning with the support from the Gauteng Department of Economic Development, Infrastructure Planning, Governance and Budgeting which will be converted into work streams once a decision to become a Metropolitan Municipality is made. In 2011, the Sedibeng District Municipality procured an electronic PMS integrating organisational planning, contracting, monitoring, evaluation and reporting. These encompass: IDP and PMS. SDM Council in its meeting on 24 October 2012 also resolved to integrate and centralise IDP and PMS (Individual and Organisational) into one Directorate to be located in the Office of the Municipal Manager. Sedibeng District Municipality’s Integrated Development Plan is informed by its Growth and Development Strategy that are aligned with the National and Provincial Outcomes as well as the National Development Plan. The Sedibeng Growth and Development Strategy seven pillars have anchored Local Municipalities’ Integrated Development Planning as Strategies to ensure district wide planning and budgeting on the same priorities are synchronized. “A SMART CITY In the making. Towards A Metropolitan River City of Choice” © Sedibeng District Municipality 2013 - All Rights Reserved Page | 9
CHAPTER 01: INTRODUCTION AND LEGISLATION IDP PUBLIC PARTICIPATION PROCESS 2012/13 The White Paper on Local Government states that “Local government structures must develop strategies and mechanisms to continuously engage with citizen’s, business and community groups and offers the following options amongst others; focus group participatory action research to generate detailed information about a wide range of specific needs and values; and participatory budget initiatives aimed at linking community priorities to capital investment programmes”. Seamless flow of information between communities in the broadest sense and developmental local government and service provision structure is increasingly a reality of corporate governance. Public participation is considered one of the key tenets of democratic governance in South Africa. Sedibeng District Municipality undertook a process of Community and Stakeholders participation in October 2012 and 15 May 2013 and the aims for doing this engagement was to ensure that the IDP process is people-driven and that the community’s needs and identified key development priorities are duly included and considered, at grass roots level. The table below provides a summary of the comments made by Stakeholders/ Broader community during Stakeholders consultation. All the comments received from the public are arranged according to sector responsibility. “A SMART CITY In the making. Towards A Metropolitan River City of Choice” © Sedibeng District Municipality 2013 - All Rights Reserved Page | 10
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